Having formed Artist & Constructor (with Bob the artist and Tim the constructor) in 1968 to great acclaim, the Organs were the toast of the contemporary architecture world when the house as Oakhill was built.

They featured frequently in books, architectural journals and newspapers and were the subject of a large article in The Times by Tony Aldous.

Based in the West Country, the Organs were the sons of an architect but neither of them had received formal architectural training themselves (although both taught the subject at the Architectural Association in London). It is the expressiveness of their designs – the daring forms of their buildings – that mark out the Organs from their contemporaries. Almost sculptural in appearance, their houses, schools, apartment blocks and other buildings still seem daring to this day.

Admirers of Modern architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Alvar Aalto (whose work they travelled to see), the Organs preferred their more organic architectural style to the severe approach of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe..

In the 1970s, Bob Organ gave up architecture to pursue painting. He is still an active and successful artist to this day. His brother, meanwhile, went on to form the J. T. Group with John Pontin OBE. Still running today, this Bristol-based architecture and development firm was a pioneer in issues of sustainability in building. When Tim Organ left the J. T. Group, he set up his own firm and he is still a practising architect based in Wales.